32, 1997. Table of Contents.

Articles

South African Regional Industrial Development Policy: Critical IssuesTrevor Bell, 1
TREVOR BELL reopens the debate from the 1970s and 1980s about regional industrial development. Apartheid policies targeted bantustans and their environs for privileged economic development, policies which were frequently attacked as uneconomic and damaging to the national interest. By contrast, this article defends regional industrial promotion as beneficial and effectively calls for its restoration under somewhat new premises.

Industrial Decentralisation RevisitedGillian Hart And Alison Todes, 31
GILLIAN HART AND ALISON TODES are also involved in a reconsideration of industrial decentralisation policies. They argue that, if one is actually looking at events on the ground in the case of the KwaZulu-Natal town of Newcastle, neither apartheid distortions nor the relocation imperatives of globalisation are enough to explain what happens. The social context, gender, the ambitions of Taiwanese businessmen, are all part of the picture.